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Nunnally Johnson

1897–1977 · American screenwriter, film director, producer and playwright

Nunnally Hunter Johnson was an American screenwriter, film director, producer and playwright. As a filmmaker, he wrote the screenplays to more than fifty films in a career that spanned from 1927 to 1967. He also produced more than half of the films he wrote scripts for and directed eight of those movies. In 1940 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Grapes of Wrath and in 1956, he was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film for The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. Some of his other notable films include Tobacco Road (1941), The Moon Is Down (1943), Casanova Brown (1944), The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), The Woman in the Window (1944), The Mudlark (1950), The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951), My Cousin Rachel (1952), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), The Three Faces of Eve (1957), Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962), and The Dirty Dozen (1967). As a playwright he wrote the books for several Broadway musicals, including the musical revue Shoot the Works (1931), Arthur Schwartz's Park Avenue (1946), Bob Merrill's Henry, Sweet Henry (1967), and Jule Styne's Darling of the Day (1968). He also wrote the 1943 Broadway play The World's Full of Girls.

Nunnally Johnson, in order

  1. 1933 A Bedtime Story: wrote · directed by Norman Taurog
  2. 1933 Mama Loves Papa: wrote · directed by Norman Z. McLeod
  3. 1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back: wrote · directed by Roy Del Ruth
  4. 1934 Kid Millions: wrote · directed by Roy Del Ruth · audiences 56% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, Hoopla
  5. 1934 Moulin Rouge: wrote · directed by Sidney Lanfield
  6. 1934 The House of Rothschild: wrote · directed by Alfred L. Werker and Sidney Lanfield · critics 100%, audiences 53%
  7. 1935 Baby Face Harrington: wrote · directed by Raoul Walsh
  8. 1935 Cardinal Richelieu: wrote · directed by Rowland V. Lee
  9. 1935 Thanks a Million: wrote · directed by Roy Del Ruth · critics 100%
  10. 1935 The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo: wrote, produced · directed by Stephen Roberts
  11. 1936 Banjo on My Knee: wrote · directed by John Cromwell · audiences 0%
  12. 1936 The Country Doctor: produced · directed by Henry King
  13. 1936 The Prisoner of Shark Island: wrote · directed by John Ford · critics 89%, audiences 69% · streaming on Plex, Fawesome
  14. 1937 Cafe Metropole: produced · directed by Edward H. Griffith · audiences 68%
  15. 1937 Love Under Fire: produced · directed by George Marshall
  16. 1939 Jesse James: wrote · directed by Henry King and Irving Cummings · audiences 66%
  17. 1939 Rose of Washington Square: wrote, produced · directed by Gregory Ratoff · audiences 56%
  18. 1939 Wife, Husband and Friend: wrote · directed by Gregory Ratoff
  19. 1940 Chad Hanna: wrote · directed by Henry King · audiences 33%
  20. 1940 I Was an Adventuress: produced · directed by Gregory Ratoff
  21. 1940 The Grapes of Wrath: wrote, produced · directed by John Ford · critics 100%, audiences 88% · streaming on Hoopla, Fawesome
  22. 1941 Tobacco Road: wrote · directed by John Ford · audiences 37%
  23. 1942 Life Begins at Eight-Thirty: produced · directed by Irving Pichel
  24. 1942 Roxie Hart: wrote, produced · directed by William A. Wellman · critics 82%, audiences 60%
  25. 1942 The Pied Piper: wrote, produced · directed by Irving Pichel and Percy Stow · critics 100%, audiences 77%
  26. 1943 Holy Matrimony: wrote, produced · directed by John M. Stahl · audiences 77%
  27. 1943 The Moon Is Down: wrote, produced · directed by Irving Pichel · audiences 83%
  28. 1944 Casanova Brown: wrote, produced · directed by Sam Wood · audiences 36%
  29. 1944 The Keys of the Kingdom: wrote · directed by John M. Stahl · audiences 83%
  30. 1944 The Woman in the Window: wrote, produced · directed by Fritz Lang · critics 83%, audiences 84% · streaming on Prime Video, Roku Channel, YouTube (free)
  31. 1945 Along Came Jones: wrote · directed by Stuart Heisler · critics 40%, audiences 54% · streaming on YouTube (free)
  32. 1945 It's in the Bag!: produced · directed by Richard Wallace
  33. 1945 The Southerner: wrote · directed by Jean Renoir · critics 92%, audiences 79% · streaming on Roku Channel, Kanopy, MGM+
  34. 1946 The Dark Mirror: wrote, produced · directed by Robert Siodmak · critics 78%, audiences 62% · streaming on Roku Channel, Plex
  35. 1947 The Senator Was Indiscreet: produced · directed by George S. Kaufman · audiences 86%
  36. 1948 Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid: wrote, produced · directed by Irving Pichel · audiences 43%
  37. 1950 Everybody Does It: wrote, produced · directed by Edmund Goulding
  38. 1950 The Gunfighter: wrote, produced · directed by Henry King · critics 93%, audiences 90% · streaming on fuboTV, Roku Channel, Pluto TV
  39. 1950 The Mudlark: wrote, produced · directed by Jean Negulesco
  40. 1950 Three Came Home: wrote, produced · directed by Jean Negulesco · critics 100%, audiences 68% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, MGM+
  41. 1951 The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel: wrote, produced · directed by Henry Hathaway · critics 83%, audiences 61%
  42. 1952 My Cousin Rachel: wrote, produced · directed by Henry Koster · critics 60%, audiences 76%
  43. 1952 O. Henry's Full House: wrote · directed by Henry Hathaway and Henry King · audiences 68%
  44. 1952 Phone Call from a Stranger: wrote, produced · directed by Jean Negulesco · audiences 52% · streaming on Plex
  45. 1952 We're Not Married!: wrote, produced · directed by Edmund Goulding · critics 33%, audiences 51%
  46. 1953 How to Marry a Millionaire: wrote, produced · directed by Jean Negulesco · critics 81%, audiences 77% · streaming on fuboTV
  47. 1954 Black Widow: directed, wrote, produced · audiences 57% · streaming on Hoopla, Fawesome, Tubi
  48. 1954 Night People: directed, wrote, produced · critics 75%, audiences 42%
  49. 1954 Witness to Murder: wrote · directed by Roy Rowland · audiences 51% · streaming on Prime Video, Tubi
  50. 1955 How to Be Very, Very Popular: directed, wrote, produced
  51. 1956 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: directed, wrote · critics 73%, audiences 73%
  52. 1957 Oh, Men! Oh, Women!: directed, wrote, produced
  53. 1957 The Three Faces of Eve: directed, wrote, produced · critics 93%, audiences 77%
  54. 1959 The Man Who Understood Women: directed, wrote, produced
  55. 1960 Flaming Star: wrote · directed by Don Siegel · critics 92%, audiences 72% · streaming on fuboTV, Fawesome
  56. 1960 The Angel Wore Red: directed, wrote · audiences 36%
  57. 1962 Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation: wrote · directed by Henry Koster · critics 80%, audiences 68% · streaming on Hoopla
  58. 1963 Take Her, She's Mine: wrote · directed by Henry Koster · audiences 67%
  59. 1964 The World of Henry Orient: wrote · directed by George Roy Hill · critics 91%, audiences 59% · streaming on Prime Video, fuboTV, MGM+
  60. 1965 Dear Brigitte: wrote · directed by Henry Koster · audiences 55%
  61. 1967 The Dirty Dozen: wrote · directed by Robert Aldrich · critics 82%, audiences 90%